Mozambique: Teachers threaten to carry out “various” strikes as of Saturday – AIM report

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Mozambique: Teachers threaten to carry out “various” strikes as of Saturday – AIM report

11:50 CAT | 15 Nov 2024

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Mozambique’s National Association of Teachers (ANAPRO) is threatening to go on strike as of Saturday because the government has been failing to meet its demands regarding the improvement of the education system and the payment of the money that it allegedly owes the teachers for their overtime work.

According to an ANAPRO statement, “the Education Ministry (MINEDH), the Provincial Directorates of Education (DPE) as well as the District Services of Education, Youth and Technology (SDJET) are informed that a new cycle of demands and pressure will begin, which will follow several stages and phases, starting next Saturday, with a National Teachers March, as a way of showing indignation and dissatisfaction with the government.”

The teachers claim that “with the end of the current school year approaching without the slightest communication, in addition to a total loss of hope, indifference, deafness, apathy and an attempt to ignore our problems, we are realizing that there is no longer any trust left in a government of liars and cheats.”

ANAPRO also claims that the government has been indifferent to the teachers’ concerns because working conditions have been deteriorating with each passing day. During this period, it added, the government has been lying to Mozambicans “and it hurts more because the government has been telling monumental lies.”

The teachers in the Mozambican National Education System are also threatening not to work with classes of over 100 pupils, since overcrowding has been harming the quality of education.

Since the first quarter of the current year, the teachers have been threatening to go on strike. If it goes ahead, the teachers’ strike will take place at a moment when the country is facing demonstrations called by the independent presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane to protest against the allegedly fraudulent results of the 9 October general elections.

Source: AIM